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Them exploding things that we used to put in cigarettes are a bad idea.. My daddy whupped my azz when I done that. Still funny tho
Love the tradition. And yes I’m taking one to the game just in case.
I get traditions and could get behind this one. But, my season tickets are on the visitors side, to say they smoke at the end of the game to celebrate a win is incorrect. They smoke cigars the entire damn game. If it were the last five minutes or so, I could care less, but that's not the case, they fire them up the first quarter and don't stop.If I'm not mistaken, their "tradition of smoking cigars after defeating UT" was started by their head trainer, a former UT guy by the name of Jim Goosetree. He was on the staff with perhaps Bryant's greatest assistant he ever had, another UT grad by the name of Ken Donahue, Bear's DC for many years.
"Lindsey Nelson, the famous announcer and Tennessee graduate, was waiting for Neyland with two former Tennessee players after the 1952 Sugar Bowl, which the Vols had lost, 28-13, to Maryland.
One of the former players was smoking, and the minute Neyland came out of the dressing room, the player dropped the cigarette and stomped on it so Neyland wouldn't see him smoking. Nelson turned to the player and said, "You don't have to do that -- you don't play for him anymore." The player replied, "You know that, and I know that, but I don't think the General knows that."